This is a feel good story. Factory jobs in America. The net effect is tax payers are covering the difference in cost between made in USA and made in China or Vi

This is a feel good story. Factory jobs in America. The net effect is tax payers are covering the difference in cost between made in USA and made in China or Vietnam. This results in less deployed broadband. Hardware manufacturing has long been offshored due to the difference in cost and our comparative advantage in designing these things versus assembling them. It’s why fabless semiconductor companies are crazy successful and your smartphone doesn’t cost twice as much as it does. If only we could break the ISP oligopoly through local loop unbundling and not just shower tax dollars on incumbent ISPs. We still have home builders who are burying coaxial cable or even ye olde phone lines in 2023 instead of single mode fiber or conduit. Almost all of the cost of deployment is labor digging or dragging lines not the electronics. No one builds a house with a service line and panel sized for 60 amps, because it’s obsolete. The same build once build right logic should apply to communications.